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अयुक्तः प्राकृतः स्तब्धः शठो नैष्कृतिकोऽलसः ।

विषादी दीर्घसूत्री च कर्ता तामस उच्यते ॥

18.28

Transliteratie

ayuktaḥ prākṛtaḥ stabdhaḥ śaṭho naiṣkṛtiko'lasaḥ |

viṣādī dīrghasūtrī ca kartā tāmasa ucyate ||

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Vertaling

Unsteady, vulgar, unbending, cheating, malicious, lazy, desponding and procrastinating such an agent is called Tamasic.

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The tamasic doer is undisciplined, crude, stubborn, deceitful, spiteful, lazy, gloomy and given to putting things off. The list mixes moral faults with failures of energy and care. It portrays a person who neither acts well nor fully avoids action, but drifts and delays. Procrastination appearing alongside deceit is telling: the Gita treats inertia (tamas) as a serious obstacle, not a harmless habit. This completes the threefold picture of the doer.

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